Essential Sundays Poetry
Sunday, February 12/ 4pm / $3.00
An open reading followed by featured readers. Julie Fisher hosts. Sponsored by the group Poetry in Baltimore. For more information contact Julie at Julie@poetryinbaltimore.com
Shevaun Brannigan is a poet and animal rights activist from Washington D.C. She was a finalist in the 2012 So To Speak poetry prize at George Mason University. Her poems have been published in Rattle, Calyx, Pebble Lake Review, Spoon River and Swivel: the Nexus of Women and Writing. A 2007 Pushcart nominee. Brannigan's is a poetry of witness which is borne of a life of witness. Instead of merely photographing the slaughter with her poems she uses them to fight back and is as adept with a pen as a Kalashnikov rifle.
Barrett Warner has lived in eight Maryland counties since the Sixties. He has stood for days pondering the concept of a "down escalator." He'll be reading from his new manuscript "Jawbone of an Ass." His poems will be published this spring in Freshwater. |
510 Readings
Saturday, February 18 / 5:00 pm /Free
Lia Purpura is the author of seven collections of essays, poems and translations, most recently, Rough Likeness (essays, Sarabande Books, January 2012). Her awards include Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (for the essay collection On Looking), NEA and Fulbright Fellowships, three Pushcart prizes, work in Best American Essays, 2011, the AWP Award in Nonfiction, and the Beatrice Hawley award in Poetry. Recent work appears in Agni, Field, The Georgia Review, Orion, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. She is Writer in Residence at Loyola University, Baltimore, MD and teaches in the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA Program.
Baltimore's Adam Robinson is the author of Adam Robinson and Other Poems and Say Poem, both books of poetry. In 2005 he wrote and produced a horror play called The Professor, in which a first-year associate professor attempts to teach his students about gothic literature by faking murders around campus -- and then the murders become real. Or do they? He is also the author of a serialized novella called THE ORGANIZATION. Adam runs Publishing Genius Press and plays guitar in the rock band called Coach Taylor.
Isaac James Baker is a writer and communications specialist living in Washington, DC. He is working on a master's degree in fiction writing from Johns Hopkins University. His short stories, poetry and journalism have been published in journals around the country and online. His first novel, Broken Bones, is the story of a young man's stay in a psychiatric ward for anorexics (The Historical Pages Company).
Timmy Reed is a writer and visual artist from Baltimore, Maryland where he currently attends the Creative Writing & Publishing Arts MFA program at University of Baltimore. He worked as an Editorial Intern at Crazyhorse while an undergraduate at the College of Charleston and has recently published in Spilt Milk Magazine, Pure Slush, The Bicycle Review, Artichoke Haircut, Pretend Genius' Write This, and Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore. He was awarded Third Place in the 2011 Baltimore City Paper Fiction Contest. |
Town Square Open Mic
Sunday, February 19 / 4:00 pm / Free
Poetry / performance / stand-up comedy / acoustic music / fiction / mime / monologues / sleight-of-hand / puppetry / oratory / mimicry. If you can read it, perform it, sing it, or say it with little or no amplification, then bring it on! Sarah Jane Miller hosts. For more information contact Sarah Jane at smiller@bcpl.net. |
